> I'm not familiar with Cal State but do they just let anyone in who applies? No, it depends on the Cal state. There are two cal state that have high acceptanc

> I'm not familiar with Cal State but do they just let anyone in who applies? No, it depends on the Cal state. There are two cal state that have high acceptance rate and have low grad rate. IIRC CalState Domigez have the highest acceptance rate. But there are other very selective calstate such as cal poly. Cal State (CSU) is an umbrella term for many california state universities across California excluding UC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California). Examples are CSULB, CSUF, CSU-whatever... edit: I had to take remedial English classes at a UC in my program ESL. So it's not amazing... Examples for UC is UCI, UCLA, UCR, UCSD....